Deskripsi Mata Kuliah :
The course examines classical and contemporary literary works and appreciates them for the students account to appreciate the prose fiction works. The course also examines the characteristics of good and bad prose works, as well as investigates those works in terms of their periods, authors, milieu, social background, political background and many other related issues in response to make more critical and applicable projects/works of prose appreciation and criticism

Capaian Mata Kuliah :

In the end of the lecture, the students are supposed to be able to :

1. Making more sense of the nature of prose and its subdivisions as well as its historical background ·
2. Being able to apply some basic concepts of literary appreciation and criticism to relate them into their major studies of literary appreciation and criticism
3. Having the ability to discern the knowledge of literary appreciation and criticism and, being able to apply them in their accounts to do prose appreciation and criticism
4. Being responsible to disseminate the knowledge of literary appreciation and criticism in order to produce a critical work of appreciation as well as criticism

Sumber Rujukan :

• Achebe, Chinua. 1945. Things Fall Apart. London: CUP
• Barnett, Berman, Burto. 1998. Introduction to Literature: Poetry, Prose and Drama. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Barry, Peter. 1995. Beginning Theory. Manchester: MUP
• Bertens, Hans. 2001. Literary Theory: The Basics. London: Routledge
• Conrad, Joseph. 1964. Heart of Darkness, in 9 Short Novels (edited by: Richard M. Ludwig and Marvin B. Perry, Jr). Boston: D.C Heath and Company
• Fokkema, D.W & Kunne-Ibsch, Elrud. 1977. Theories of Literature in the Twentieth Century. London: C Hurst and Company
• Gide, Andre. 1919. Pastoral Symphony. London: Press
• Kafka, Franz. 1964. Metamorphosis, in in 9 Short Novels (edited by: Richard M. Ludwig and Marvin B. Perry, Jr). Boston: D.C Heath and Company
• Knickerbocker & Reninger. 1964. Interpreting Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Morrison, Toni. 1994. The Bluest Eye. New York: A Plume Book
• Tyson, Louis. 2006. Critical Theory Today: A User Friendly Gude (Second Edition). New York: Routledge